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Who is the biggest sleazball GOP Governor (Original Post) DonCoquixote Oct 2013 OP
How about McDonald, he has been pretty sleazy but Scott Walker is sleazy but I must Thinkingabout Oct 2013 #1
Does it really matter? Tripper11 Oct 2013 #2
Rick Perry Gothmog Oct 2013 #3
Yes, Rick Perry Has my vote too dem in texas Oct 2013 #9
+1 n/t onestepforward Oct 2013 #18
So many it's hard to choose from. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2013 #4
Tom Corbett Freddie Oct 2013 #5
Yes. nt Mnemosyne Oct 2013 #13
I'll add BumRushDaShow Oct 2013 #15
+1,000 n/t Lugnut Oct 2013 #17
Yes, Corbett is a real sleazeball. 2nd is the guy from Wisconsin. AlinPA Oct 2013 #20
I think he's my least favorite, although I can't stand my own governor (Phil Bryant of MS). LuvNewcastle Oct 2013 #21
Mike Pence Indiana B Calm Oct 2013 #6
I would put in a vote for Rick Scott... NCTraveler Oct 2013 #7
I think we can disqualify a few just because they're not actually the brains of their operations. Gidney N Cloyd Oct 2013 #8
Hmm..... that is a tough one.... Turbineguy Oct 2013 #10
pRick Scott is my sleazy GOP Governor, also. HooptieWagon Oct 2013 #11
Rick Scott! Or that's my opinion. nt el_bryanto Oct 2013 #12
Take each GOP gov and place on a clean paper towel... Orsino Oct 2013 #14
The Bug Eyed Space Alien is my Governor too HockeyMom Oct 2013 #16
Sean Parnell in Alaska fits that category. Blue_In_AK Oct 2013 #19

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
1. How about McDonald, he has been pretty sleazy but Scott Walker is sleazy but I must
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 12:29 PM
Oct 2013

Mention OOPS Rick Perry also. Too many to pick from. On the other side Jerry Brown has turned California around.

dem in texas

(2,674 posts)
9. Yes, Rick Perry Has my vote too
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 12:46 PM
Oct 2013

He has taken cronyism to a new high in Texas politics and made himself rich along the way. The first time he ran he did not get a majority because of a split ticket, but he won. The second time he ran against Bill White and won a majority. Texas would have been so much better off if he'd lost that first election.

Freddie

(9,267 posts)
5. Tom Corbett
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 12:32 PM
Oct 2013

1. Refusing to tax the oil companies (what are they going to do, move their derricks to India?)
2. Refusing to fund public schools (especially Philly) and state universities
3. Jerry Sandusky
4. Never met a privitization scheme (liquor stores, state lottery) he didn't like
5. Tried to pass a vaginal ultrasound law "if you don't want to see it just turn your head"
6. His recent comments comparing same sex marriage to marrying your sibling

I could go on, haven't got all day.

BumRushDaShow

(129,053 posts)
15. I'll add
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 01:01 PM
Oct 2013

7.) Voter ID law
8.) Castle Doctrine (or law, similar to "Stand Your Ground" but for the home and surrounding area)

And related to your #2, I just found this article published yesterday -

[font size="4"]Crooks and Liars[/font]

October 10, 2013 05:30 PM
PA Gov. Corbett's Schools Strategy Leads to Death of 12 Y.O. Girl
By karoli


<..>

Sixth-grader Laporshia Massey died from asthma complications, according to her father, who says he rushed her to the emergency room soon after she got home from school on the afternoon of Sept. 25. He says Laporshia had begun to feel ill earlier that day at Bryant Elementary School, where a nurse is on staff only two days a week. This day was not one of those days.

(...)

But neither Burch nor Mitchell realized how serious the situation was. Burch, who told his daughter they would take care of her symptoms when she got home, believes that a trained professional would have seen the danger. “Why,” he asks, “didn’t [the school] take her to the hospital?”

<..>

Seeing his daughter’s state when she arrived home at about 3:15 p.m., Burch says, he immediately gave her medication and then rushed her to the hospital. She collapsed in the car, at which point Burch flagged down a passing ambulance in the middle of traffic. Burch says his daughter later died at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, which could not confirm any details, including the time of her arrival, due to privacy constraints.

“They told her school was almost out, and she’d get out of school and go straight home,” says one district source, who requested anonymity because she was not authorized to speak to the press. “She went to the teacher,” who told her “there’s no nurse, and just to be calm.”


http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/billionaires-join-fight-against-philly-teac

LuvNewcastle

(16,846 posts)
21. I think he's my least favorite, although I can't stand my own governor (Phil Bryant of MS).
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 01:19 PM
Oct 2013

When an elected official makes the kind of comments like Corbett has about gay people, he goes to the top of my shit list.

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
7. I would put in a vote for Rick Scott...
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 12:35 PM
Oct 2013

but I think he is at least a very smart man. Therefore I am going to go for Rick Perry.

You said sleazball, not dangerous. I think Scott takes the cake on dangerous.

 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
11. pRick Scott is my sleazy GOP Governor, also.
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 12:51 PM
Oct 2013

But hard to say he's the worst....Perry, Walker, are bad too. And several who are very close.

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
14. Take each GOP gov and place on a clean paper towel...
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 01:00 PM
Oct 2013

...and see which leaves the biggest grease spot.

 

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)
16. The Bug Eyed Space Alien is my Governor too
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 01:02 PM
Oct 2013

but hopefully not for long. Did you hear about the time he went to teach(?) in a Pre-K class and made the little kids cry? He had to leave the classrooom. Can any of the others on the list top that?????? Hell, me makes me cry too. Can he please LEAVE?

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